Hi Jason,
On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Jason White wrote:
In the current, partially ported, version the intonation tends to
rise sharply
until punctuation is encountered. I have noticed, however, that the
parsing
code inserts markers into the phonetic string which is forwarded to
the rest
of the synthesizer for processing, and I surmise that these affect,
among
other parameters, the intonation. Thus I will listen again when the
parser has
been ported and refined.
A quick comment on this observation of yours. In Monet, there is an
"Intonation Parameters" tool, which allows you to change the
parameters of the intonation. If you reduce the "Pretonic Range" to
(say) 3, from 5, the speech doesn't sound so frenetic. You can play
around with all the parameters which alter ranges, notional pitch and
such for the various components of the Halliday intonation framework
for Spoken English.
The latest version of Monet has two input windows. One is for
ordinary text, and the other shows the resulting Monet "phonetic"
input, with various added information for the intonation if you
select "Parse Text". When you "Synthesize", it is the "phonetic"
input that gets spoken.
We're working on various aspects of the whole gnuspeech suite as you
know. I have just made a 0.7 version of "Synthesizer" available and
Dalmazio has put it into the SVN repository (thanks Dalmazio).
"Synthesizer", you may remember, is an application to allow a user to
experiment with the raw tube model that provides the vocal tract
emulation. It is also a tool that is needed when creating the
synthesis databases for a new language using Monet.
All good wishes.
david
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